Patient Care Manager/Nurse Manager II - CVOR (Full-Time, 8-Hour Day Shifts)

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

The CVOR Patient Care Manager (PCM) provides frontline clinical and operational leadership for the Cardiovascular Operating Room, overseeing a highly specialized team supporting cardiothoracic, vascular, and transplant surgical services. This role is accountable for daily operations, staffing, patient flow, and coordination of complex and emergent cases in a high-acuity procedural environment.

The PCM ensures staff competency, onboarding, and ongoing education specific to CVOR practice, while maintaining compliance with regulatory, quality, and safety standards. The role partners closely with surgeons, anesthesia, perfusion, SPD, supply chain, and nursing leadership to ensure case readiness, efficient throughput, and timely issue escalation.

The CVOR PCM is responsible for performance management, staff engagement, and retention, as well as contributing to process improvement initiatives that support patient safety, operational reliability, and service line sustainability.

Stanford's Cardiovascular Operating Room is globally recognized with a long history of excellence in surgical care. As a pioneer in heart transplant surgery, Stanford surgeons performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States in 1968, cementing Stanford’s reputation as a leader in cardiovascular medicine. In 1981, Stanford performed the first successful heart-lung transplant. Currently, Stanford ranks #1 in the US for Transplant Rate, #1 for Graft Survival Rate at the 1-year mark, and #1 in California for Organ Acceptance. Our nurses are trained with state-of-the-art technology and equipment allowing them to fully contribute as members of a multidisciplinary surgical team. Stanford CVOR nurses are highly skilled, dedicated professionals who are committed to providing exceptional care to patients undergoing complex cardiac, vascular, and thoracic surgeries.

Why Stanford Health Care:

*We are a top 10 ranked level 1 trauma magnet facility in the U.S. with world recognition and state-of-the-art facilities.
*Our compensation rates are in the top 1% of the nation.
*We invest in your continued career growth with yearly education funds of $2,000.00 and invest in your retirement with a robust matching program.
*Our positions offer a career ladder and continued pay growth.
*We help you commute to work for free and offer a relocation to make a possible move more manageable for you and your family.
*This role offers an annual incentive plan up to 11.25% of base salary.

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The Patient Care Manager is a Registered Nurse who provides unit leadership and works in partnership with nursing, the healthcare team, hospital/system leaders to develop a quality practice setting that support professional nursing and quality patient care. The Patient Care Manager is accountable for the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care. Responsibilities include coordination of patient care; supervision of a professional team that includes multiple nursing and other staff as appropriate; administrative and budget management; troubleshooting of problem areas; organizational change management; ensuring compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards; quality assurance/quality improvement; safety and risk management requirements as well as actualization of hospital and unit policies, goals and objectives. Further, improving unit operations, enhancing communication and feedback, customizing education and staff roles, and accepting organizational accountability for services provided to recipients are critical outcomes expected of this role. The Patient Care Manager role is critical to hospital operations and minimally accomplishes the following essential duties.

Patient Care Manager I vs. II designation is based on span of control, hours of operation, and level of unit complexity.


Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Clinical Practice: Ensures the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing services of unit(s), including the assessment of patients, implementation of physicians' orders, treatment plans and medical procedures, administration of medication and record keeping of same as well as by monitoring and evaluating patient care processes and outcomes for the patient care unit(s); coordinates nursing activities with those of other services or disciplines. Demonstrates clinical competency in assigned specia